Enjoy winter time in the south.
Empty beaches for long walks surfing or even swimming.
Few tourists
A lot of space and sunshine.
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I hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas.

Just being back from Germany, we had  marvellous silent Christmas days 

with a beautiful Christmas table



​good food, 


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warm evenings
​in front of the fire place

great beach walks

 and a lot of relaxation

Finally the work on the grounds, which are attaching to the garden, went on.
​I cleared a lot of the logs away, which were buried there and stored the ones, which can be still used as firewood, in the newly built wood shed.

There is plenty of wood rotting in the earth, unfortunately all of it was somehow wrapped in a big plastic sheet, which is now after years falling apart and sticking in bits and pieces everywhere in the ground. Just completely  horrible.

John made a bonfire and finally burned all the garden stuff I had piled up in the last 3 months cleaning up the property.
We were very aware of the possibility of the fire creeping into the dry grass and scrubs and had buckets of water and a batter ready.
I also had cut the grass very short in a circle around the fireplace

And finally:!
After being requested often, Quintinha Mojud is now getting a small outside kitchen, which will give all my guests the possibility of using a fridge and a small gas burner on the covered terrace and cook their own meals and store their food.

​Virgilio doing a great job

 making it all rain- and wind proved

it´s ​looking great

Last week we made a trip to Almograve.
​I would like to share some fotos with you as is really lovely over there.
Almograve is situated between Odemira and Vila Nova de Milfontes in the southern Alentejo

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                                             The beach of Almograve

The coastline is just fantastic

​Sandstone formations.....plants are finding a grip just everywhere

Almograve has a little natural harbour. We discovered it by coincidence, following a dirt track along the cliffs. 
When we already wanted to turn around, being afraid, that we would not be able to do it later on as the road was narrowing, we came to a point we could park the car  and continued walking. After the next bent, the harbour was lying.

It was raining quite a bit in the last days.... stormy, too.
The water together with the sunny days we had before gave a real boost to nature.
My fruit trees, pampered with some manure last autumn, start to push some green or already flower.

Funny enough, of some I don´t even know what kind of tree they are. It will be one of my surprises to see, what kind of fruit they make :-)

Even the poor little lemon tree , which struggled so badly, starts to do better and makes a little bud.

And the orange and the manderine trees, I planted new last October start growing

Spring is not on its way, it has arrived already........

The next days should be sunny with temperatures way over 20 degree Celsius
Let´s get the shorts and T-shirts out...........